The 2007 Pisco, Peru, earthquake (M 8.0): Seismology and geodesy

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 657-669

  Biggs, Juliet ^a   Robinson, David P ^b   Dixon, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Satellite geodesy; South America; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GEODESY; SATELLITE DATA; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ICA; PARACAS PENINSULA; PERU; PISCO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 61349108176     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03990.x     Document Type: Article

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